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While there are so many things about Paul’s life that are relatable to all of us, there are some remarkable events that will not and can not be replicated. Somewhere near the top of the “remarkable-events-in-Paul’s-life-that-the-average-person-doesn’t-experience” list is the time he was privileged to go see heaven…literally. Let me say that a different way. I’m …

Some years ago, when my husband and I were members of a little independent Bible church in the countryside, a famous revivalist came to preach. He gave what I later learned was his most well-known sermon: a come-to-Jesus bidding drawn from the parable of the wheat and the tares found in Matthew 13:24–30. In the …

We live in a time when people go to a building on Sunday mornings, attend an hour-long service, and call themselves members of the Church. Does that sound shocking to you? Of course not. This is perfectly normal. It’s what we grew up with. We all know good Christians go to church. But have you …

God isn’t calling gay people to be straight. You’d think He was by listening to the ways Christians try to encourage same-sex-attracted people within, or outside, their local churches. They dangle the possibility of heterosexual marriage above their heads, point to it like it’s heaven on a string, something to grab and get whole with. …

Human beings are bodies. This is much truer than saying we “have” bodies—as if we could do without them or leave them behind. We are also souls—unique and irreplaceable selves that exist in and beyond our physical nature. We don’t “have” souls any more than we “have” bodies. We are both, soul and body together, …